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Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Obama Letting Turkey Drive a Wedge Between NATO and Israel « Commentary Magazine

Obama Letting Turkey Drive a Wedge Between NATO and Israel
Omri Ceren | @cerenomri 03.06.2012 - 8:47 AM

President Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan share a warm friendship. The Turkish PM is considered a close foreign friend to a president who notoriously has very few. And though American diplomatic cables concluded years ago that the AKP harbors neo-Ottoman ambitions, risking “‘creeping’ Islamization, naivete, and anti-Westernism,” the president has continued boosting Turkey’s regional posture and insulating the AKP’s domestic position.

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